In Germany, Handelsblatt’s Carsten Volkery admired May’s “inexhaustible capacity for suffering and unique stamina”. But, the paper said, “what up until recently prompted respect in both friends and opponents, now increasingly sparks confusion and incomprehension”.
Parliament’s rejection of the deal shows “not only shows the complete powerlessness of the prime minister”, Handeslblatt said, but underlines the extent to which May “nurtured the illusions of the Brexit hardliners”.
Her attempt to seek concessions from the EU is doomed, because it “will not give May what she wants to satisfy her critics”. For Britain, it is not a good look: the prime minister “cannot be honest even at this late stage”, and too many MPs “continue to insist their full demands be met, rather than accept a necessary compromise”.
In Spain, El País editorial writer Iñaki Gabilondo said Britain was now “in the quagmire” after a referendum “that has not ceased delivering displeasure since the very moment it was born”.
Sign up to our Brexit weekly briefing Read more Italy’s Corriere della Serra spoke of May’s “most difficult day … marked by open laughter and screams of mockery”, while Gaia Cesare, writing in Il Giornale, described May’s decision as a “desperate, last-minute move” designed to “save Brexit, the country and herself” that only “adds chaos to chaos”.
In Sweden, Therese Larsson Hultin, writing in Svenska Dagbladet, said May’s decision meant Britain had gone from “great uncertainty about Brexit, to complete chaos. For the simple truth is that no one, absolutely no one, knows what will happen until the British leave the union at midnight on 29 March next year.”
The prime minister may attempt to “seek help from the continent in the eleventh hour”, the paper said, “but the question is just how helpful her European colleagues can, and want, to be.”
Denmark’s Berlingske made the same point. “When exactly does the EU decide it’s had enough of rolling May’s Brexit rock up the mountain?” it asked. “And just what is the EU able – and willing – to do to help her once more?”
“When exactly does the EU decide it’s had enough of rolling May’s Brexit rock up the mountain?”
Perfect imagery!
May postpones parliamentary vote to buy time and renegotiate. Rebuffed:
HARD BREXIT is coming... which is what it should have been in the first place... the EU was always going to EFF the UK.... UK Leaders should have been busy negotiating new trade agreements with the US, China and others, etc rather than wasting time on thinking they were going to get anything reasonable out of the EU.
May was a fool... I am amazed she hasn’t been booted.
I don’t get it. Article 50’submission been triggered. There are no backsies. The UK will be out. Screw the deal, which was just a way to funnel UK taxpayers’ money to the EU.
May should ask trump for help... but no, that would mean swallowing her pride and resisting her EU overlords lol...
So what happens if March 30 arrives with no agreement? My guess is that it turns into a "hard BRexit", which the EU elites would flip out over.
She really didn’t want to do it. She wants a job in the EU after this is all over.
The 4th reich is collapsing.
May is a lost cause. She was a complete nonce as Prime Minister and she’s clearly on her way out.
I’m just glad to see the British People and the British Parliament will not accept abject surrender. Hard Brexit will be a shock to the system but its far better than what the Yurps were offering.
I hope President Trump and the Democrats can agree to quickly offer Britain a free trade deal along the lines of the renegotiated NAFTA deal we just made with Mexico and Canada.
You keep your laws, your currency, your Queen and your national sovereignty. We just trade more freely with each other with no political aspirations out of the deal at all. Ideally we could get the rest of the Anglosphere especially Australia and New Zealand signed up too.
complete incompetence
I’ve written out a Brexit proposal:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3710348/posts
UK INDEPENDENCE
The UK shall be legally independent of the EU, except via this agreement, and its successors, effective 1 April 2019.
Except as clearly and self-evidently provided by any international treaty in which many non-EU nations and the UK are bound by, the courts of the UK shall be the sole courts having judicial power in the UK and over the governments of the UK, effective 1 April 2019.
ECONOMIC STABILITY PROVISIONS
Proper UK/EU certifications to EU/UK law shall be valid, unless related EU/UK law is changed.
UK/EU products and services shall be treated as per existing rules, unless related EU/UK law is changed.
UK/EU products and services shall not be discriminated against by the UK/EU, without a notice period of at least two years.
RESIDENTAL RIGHTS
Each EU/UK citizen can continue to reside in, and own, and sell, their existing EU/UK property/properties, in the country they are in, without undue legal discrimination as to regulation, taxation and tax-supported schooling below the university level, as long as they do so in a lawful manner that is respectful of the social order, which may be clarified by national law.
Begging, intimidating solicitation, rough sleeping, illegal housing overcrowding, tax evasion, repeated/criminal fare evasion, rowdiness and public intoxication may legally be considered disrespectful of the social order.
RECIPROCAL RIGHT to WORK and PARTICIPATE in ASSOCIATED HEALTH CARE SCHEMES
Current EU citizens may work in the UK, conditioned on full mutual reciprocity for current UK citizens, by EU member nation, as they legally could as of 1 December 2018, until further notice under a national law of the UK or EU member nation, to be bilaterally effective after four years, which shall not be given earlier than 2026.
All such participating foreign EU/UK workers and their legally dependent children living with them shall be able/required to participate in the associated health care schemes to the same extant and on the same basis as resident nationals, unless related EU/UK law is changed.
UK WELFARE for EU CITIZENS
Effective immediately, EU newcomers to the UK shall not be entitled by any UK agreement with the EU to get welfare, such as housing benefits or new student loans.
UK welfare for all EU citizens in UK, not having UK citizenship, by any UK agreement with the EU, ends 31 December 2019.
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a leader would get in front rather than get dragged behind. May somehow cannot get in front. She is not a leader, but maybe she is a globalist politician bot.
Just heard on the radio that May is out.